diff --git a/guile.changes b/guile.changes
index 928edd7..b4d9f62 100644
--- a/guile.changes
+++ b/guile.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec  9 10:38:37 UTC 2011 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Drop libtool archives.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Dec  3 14:24:16 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/guile.spec b/guile.spec
index e1d709b..f7955c9 100644
--- a/guile.spec
+++ b/guile.spec
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
+
+
 # define the name used for versioning libs and directories.
 %define guilemaj    2
 %define guilemin    0
@@ -120,6 +122,7 @@ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="." make check
 %install
 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/guile/site
+find %{buildroot}%{_libdir} -type f -name '*.la' -delete -print
 
 %post devel
 %install_info --info-dir=%{_infodir} %{_infodir}/%{name}.info.gz
@@ -178,7 +181,6 @@ rm -f usr/share/guile/site/slibcat.SuSEconfig
 %doc %{_infodir}/%{name}.info-1[0-9].gz
 %doc %{_infodir}/r5rs.info.gz
 %{_libdir}/libguile*.so
-%{_libdir}/libguile*.la
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/guile-%{guilevers}.pc
 
 %changelog